Dayle Southwell

The joy and beauty of football, and the many disappointments, is often more about chance and luck than business logic.  

Never mind Bogle, if we could have had Liam Hearn this season, fully fit, we would all be on the beach by now.  If only..........................

Where would Man United have been without than chance opportunity to buy their talisman Eric Cantona, and for only £1M?

Why do successful, hard-headed businessmen, in a competive world,  often get the basics so wrong in football?

Had we signed Bogle we may have not got another player who's played such a vital role, Clay for example.  

Within our attack I don't believe we've got a single player who's capable of scoring 25-30 goals in a season.  Be that through ability or injuries/fitness.

But I think Hurst's plan is more about spreading the goals about rather than relying on one man.  Barnet gambled and whilst it worked with Akinde, had he picked up a lengthy injury in October they would have struggled badly.

Whilst we've gone through bad patches we've never struggled at any point and that's with injuries and lack of form for key men.

Two seasons at this level when we did have all our eggs in one basket with a striker (Connell and Hearn) we finished mid-table.  Both strikers had patches where they didn't score, nor did the team overall.